In short, the practically cognized present is no knife-edge, but a saddle-back, with a certain breadth of its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time. Psychology - الصفحة 265بواسطة William James - 1892 - عدد الصفحات: 478عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 458
...short, the practically cognized present is no knife-edge, but a saddle-back, with a certain breadth of its own on which we sit perched, and from which...stern, as it were — a rearward- and a forwardlooking end.1 It is only as parts of this duration-Uoek that the relation of succession of one end to the other... | |
| 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...short, the practically cognized present is no knife-edge, but a saddle-back, with a certain breadth of its own on which we sit perched, and from which...composition of our perception of time is a duration, Avith a bow and a stern, as it were—a rearward- and a forwardlooking end. i It is only as parts of... | |
| William James - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 718
...short, the practically cognized present is no knifeedge, but a saddle-back, with a certain breadth of its own on which we sit perched, and from which...it were — a rearward- and a forward-looking end. t It is only * The Alternative, p. 167. t Locke. In his dim way. derived the sense of duration from... | |
| William James - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 716
...short, the practically cognized present is no knifeedge, but a saddle-back, with a certain breadth of its own on which we sit perched, and from which...it were — a rearward- and a forward-looking end. t It is only • The Alternative, p. 167. f Locke, in his dim way. derived the sense of duration from... | |
| Alexander Thomas Ormond - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...distinguishes between a " specious present," which James picturesquely describes as " a sort of saddleback with a certain length of its own, on which we sit...and from which we look in two directions into time," and the real present, which forever vanishes to a point. This real present the psychologist finds inexplicable,... | |
| 1917 - عدد الصفحات: 714
...practicallycognized present ', says James, ' is no knife-edge, but a saddle-back with a certain breadth of its own on which we sit perched, and from which...our perception of time is a duration, with a bow and stern, as it were — a rear1 Creative Evolution, p. 5. ward and a forward-looking end. It is only... | |
| Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond - 1901 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...words, " The practically cognized present is no knife-edge, but a saddle-back, with a certain breadth of its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time ". The Specious Present is to be opposed to the Atomic Present which is mainly a fiction of the mathematicians.... | |
| James Mark Baldwin - 1902 - عدد الصفحات: 946
...James: 'The practically cognized present is no knife-edge, but a saddle-back, with a certain breadth of its own on which we sit perched, and from which...a bow and a stern, as it were — a rearward and a forward looking end.' The saddle-back metaphor and much else in James on the subject applies to any... | |
| Charles Franklin Dunbar, Frank William Taussig, Abbott Payson Usher, Alvin Harvey Hansen, William Leonard Crum, Edward Chamberlin, Arthur Eli Monroe - 1905 - عدد الصفحات: 706
...way:* — The practically cognized present is no knife-edge, but a saddleback, with a certain breadth of its own on which we sit perched, and from which...it were, — a rearward- and a forward-looking end. The economic present is not only a period, but it is a period of sufficient definiteness in each man's... | |
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